Menzies' Echymipera

Menzies' Echymipera[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Peramelemorphia
Family: Peramelidae
Genus: Echymipera
Species: E. echinista
Binomial name
Echymipera echinista
Menzies, 1990
Menzies' Spiny Bandicoot range

Menzies' Echymipera (Echymipera echinista), or Menzies' Spiny Bandicoot or Fly River Bandicoot, is a species of marsupial in the Peramelidae family. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea.[2]

References

  1. ^ Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 41. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3. 
  2. ^ a b Leary, T., Wright, D., Hamilton, S., Singadan, R., Menzies, J., Bonaccorso, F., Helgen, K., Seri, L., Aplin, K., Dickman, C. & Salas, L. (2008). Echymipera echinista. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 28 December 2008. Database entry includes justification for why this species is data deficient